ORLANDO, Fla. -- It was announced today that Rick Bristol has now confirmed NASCAR Craftsman Truck driver David Starr will be attending the Hopkins Family Truckers 200 on December 8th & 9th at Orlando Speedworld.

" I am really excited to have David Starr attending along with Florida's newest cup driver David Reutimann. They are both great drivers and great guys. David Starr came through contacts I have where I work. We are a Toyota Forklift Dealer and Toyotaforklift.net sponsors the #11 truck owned by Jeff Hammond. I made contacts through his agent in Daytona and my boss talked to him at a recent meeting in Las Vegas. David told him he wanted to be there if he could and they have cleared that. We need to now just work out the times for both of them" stated Bristol.

" We are not done yet, as we have the opportunity for another truck driver and possibly two cup drivers we are working on now. This thing could be so wonderful, I want this to raise a lot of money for Tommy and his family" he added.

Some reminders to drivers planning to be there for this great event which features a first of its kind 200 Lap truck event for the Florida based Pro type trucks, pre-entries are due by November 1st and are $125.00. After the 1st they will be $150.00. The purse for the event featuring $2000.00 to win and $200 to start is around $12,000.00. There is $2,150.00 in lap money so far and another $600 in posted awards to this date.

" We really need the truckers to step up and come forward to make this thing huge, I know they will, they are a great bunch of guys. I have had the chance to officiate many of them and hang out and race with a bunch more. It should be a cool race".

Mini-cup drivers are donating there time to race to help raise money for Tommy Hopkins as well. They will compete on both nights. We will have legends racing on Saturday as well. Florida Series director Russ Thomson is working to get the word out to the drivers to show up in force. You can contact Russ at 407-857-0042 for more information if you race a legend car.

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